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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 368, May 2, 1994 ]

ESTABLISHING AS MATANG-TUBIG WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS WATER YIELD AND TO PROVIDE RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MONREAL, PROVINCE OF MASBATE, ISLAND OF TICAO

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition, or settlement and set aside as Matang-Tubig Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamations reserving any portion thereof for specific purposes, and to the implementation of socially-oriented projects and other forestry development programs consistent with the objectives of the proclamation as may be determined by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, a certain parcel of land of the public domain, located in the Municipality of Monreal, Province of Masbate, as shown in the Bureau of Forestry Map L.C. 493 with the following descriptions:

Beginning at point “1” on the map is a point which is identical to FZ corner No. 3 Block-A Timberland, Monreal, Masbate;

Thence S 50° E, 260 meters to corner 2, identical to FZ corner 4, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 56° E, 380 meters to corner 3, identical to FZ corner 5, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 43° E, 532 meters to corner 4, identical to FZ corner 6, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 60° E, 410 meters to corner 5, identical to FZ corner 7, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 13° E, 200 meters to corner 6, identical to FZ corner 8, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 27° E, 300 meters to corner 7, identical to FZ corner 9, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 35° E, 500 meters to corner 8, identical to FZ corner 10, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 33° E, 232 meters to corner 9, identical to FZ corner 11, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 33° W, 184 meters to corner 10, identical to FZ corner 12, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 38° E, 444 meters to corner 11, identical to FZ corner 13, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 23° E, 240 meters to corner 12, identical to FZ corner 14, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 19° E, 192 meters to corner 13, identical to FZ corner 15, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 82° E, 242 meters to corner 14, identical to FZ corner 16, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 55° W, 504 meters to corner 15, identical to FZ corner 17, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 35° E, 288 meters to corner 16, identical to FZ corner 18, Block-A Timberland;

Thence N 87° E, 328 meters to corner 17, identical to FZ corner 19, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 55° E, 218 meters to corner 18, identical to FZ corner 20, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 19° W, 260 meters to corner 19, identical to FZ corner 21, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 25° E, 260 meters to corner 20, identical to FZ corner 22, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 57° W, 372 meters to corner 21, identical to FZ corner 23, Block-A Timberland;

Thence N 71° W, 288 meters to corner 22, identical to FZ corner 24, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 48° E, 380 meters to corner 23, identical to FZ corner 25, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 14° E, 228 meters to corner 24, identical to FZ corner 26, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 40° W, 200 meters to corner 25, identical to FZ corner 27, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 03° W, 375 meters to corner 26, identical to FZ corner 28, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 13° E, 252 meters to corner 27, identical to FZ corner 29, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 66° E, 280 meters to corner 28, identical to FZ corner 30, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 20° E, 352 meters to corner 29, identical to FZ corner 31, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 66° E, 560 meters to corner 30, identical to FZ corner 32, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 09° E, 280 meters to corner 31, identical to FZ corner 33, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 61° W, 280 meters to corner 32, identical to FZ corner 34, Block-A Timberland;

Thence DUE SOUTH, 140 meters to corner 33, identical to FZ corner 35, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 70° E, 480 meters to corner 34, identical to FZ corner 36, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 18° W, 384 meters to corner 35, identical to FZ corner 37, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 27° W, 380 meters to corner 36, identical to FZ corner 38, Block-A Timberland;

Thence N 88° W, 340 meters to corner 37, identical to FZ corner 39, Block-A Timberland;

Thence S 26° W, 440 meters to corner 38, identical to FZ corner 40, Block-A Timberland;

Thence N 62° W, 1,500 meters to corner 39, stake;

Thence N 26° W, 900 meters to corner 40, stake;

Thence N 12° W, 1,500 meters to corner 41, stake;

Thence N 12° W, 1,050 meters to corner 42, stake;

Thence N 36° W, 950 meters to corner 43, stake;

Thence N 59° E, 400 meters to corner 44, stake;

Thence N 25° W, 1,550 meters to corner 45, stake;

Thence N 25° W, 300 meters to corner 46, stake;

Thence N 01° W, 400 meters to corner 47, stake;

Thence N 28° E, 1,070 meters to corner 1, the point of beginning containing an area of ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIVE (1,305) HECTARES, more or less.1aшphi1

The area covered by the reservation shall be under the administration, supervision, and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its Forest Management Bureau, in coordination with other agencies of the government with the objective of maintaining its usefulness as a source of water for irrigation and domestic use and other forestry purposes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2d day of May in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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